THE SUNDAY BEE: OMAHA. JULY 16. 1922.
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Reform of Upper
House Problem in
' BritislPolitics
Lloyd George Seels to Reduce
Lords Membership From
600 to 330 May Cause
Cabinet Split.
London. July 15 (Hy A. V.)-
I he reform of the houne of lordt it
a prrrnnial nrohlmi in British poll
tict, and according to many aoiufe
political olfrver, it may prove to
he the rock on which the coalition
cabinet will lit.
It it generally laid that the con
tervatives want to reform the upper
house of parliament by making; it an
iron-clad permanent conservative
body, while the lihrraU are striving
to dilute itt conservatism at much
an possible.
The government of former IVe
mier Atquith reformed the lord by
taking away its power to kill bills
originating in the house of commons,
although it can postpone them by an
annual vote for t'frre years. The
principal motive for this reform was
to make liberal Irish legislation poi
lible. Want 350 Member.
The upper house next Tuesday
will deal with proposals of Frime
Minister Lloyd George's cabinet,
which resemble more a declaration
of principles than a definite plan of
reform. The government proposes
that the membership of the house of
lords consist of 350 members.
According to the present plan, the
house shall consist, in addition to
peers of royal blood and law lords,
of members elected from outside, in
cluding hereditary peers elected by
their order and members nominated
by the crown, the number of the lat
ter to be fixed by the statute. The
terms of the elected lords also would
be iixed by statute, and they would
be elieihle for re-election. I
The government proposes that the
lords shall not reject or amend
financial bills, and the question
whether a given bill is a financial
bill would be decided hy a joint
committee of the two houses.
There are now more than 600
lords, only a small minority of which
take part' in that body's proceedings
and many of whom are never seen
there.
Theatrical Crisis.
England's theatrical crisis is daily
growing more serious. More than
4,000 actors and actresses, including
numerous Americans, are without
employment and many are on 'he
brink of starvation, Playhouse of
ficials say it is the worst situation in
the history of the stage.
Men and women who one time
were billed at "stars" and who have
devoted their lives and talents in
giving pleasure to others are now
CNlsting in a wretched state of mis
ery. Many of them have sold their
jewelry and most of their clothing.
Artists who in the past drew $50 a
night now get less than that in a
week. But most of them are with
out engagements of any kind and
are seeking help from benevolent in
stitutions. The causes are the whole
sale closing of theaters due to lack
of public support, the increasing
tendency of people to patronize the
cinema in the interest of economy;
and the general exodus of the popu
lation to seashore and country.
Explorations Fail.
So far the year 1922 has not been
a triumphant season for British ex
plorations. The failure of the Mount Everest
expedition to reach the summit of
the highest mountain in the world
was discounted by most authorities
who said the greatest surprise had
been that the climbers were able to
go as far as they did without oxygen
and that they were able to transport
oxygen .apparatus to almost the
highest slopes.
The definite news that they were
returning was take.'i for granted be
fore it reached Englant. Whether the
Royal Geographical society will re
new the enterprise another year is
questionable. The expedition was
one of the most costly ever at
tempted and financial reasons may
make another Mount Everest cam
paign impossible.
Quits South Pacific.
The late Sir Ernest Shackleton's
little ship Quest, according tc re
ports, ;s- about to sail homeward
from the s uth Pacific, thus giving
up the lor J progrrm for Antarctic
explorations over which the explorer
hail studied several years.
Sir lirnest's death was not the
only cause cf the failure of the en
terprise. Capt. Wild, 'vho succeedei
to command after his chief's death,
concluded af.er consultation with
shipping men that the Quest was not
large enough and strong enough to
fight the southern ice fields.
Considering Sir Ernest's wide ex
perience and the fact that 11 off
England's seafaring knowledge was
at his disposal, it now seems strange
to leading shipping experts that the
Quest's possibilities and limitations
were not realized before the expedi
tion started.
Chemical Body Protests
German Dye Patents Return
Washington, July 15. i rotest
against any action by the govern
nnt which would result in the r
turn to the former German owners
of chemical patents seized during
the war, by the alien property cus
todian, was made to President Hard
ing today bv the board of governors
of the Synthetic Organic Chemical
manufacturers of the United States.
Nothing possibly could be more dis
astrous to the American chemical in
dustry, the delegation declared, or
of greater aid in restoring to the
German chemical cartel, the monop
oly it formerly enjoyed.
On leaving the White House, rep
resentatives of the association said
the president had given them a con
siderate audience, adding that they
alt were agreed that the court action
projected by the government against
the Chemical Foundation. Inc., to
clear title to the patents, was the
best procedure under the circum
stances. Clearing House Statement
New York. July 14. The actual
condition of the clearing house banks
and trust companies for the week
shows that they hold $12316,550 in
excess of legal requirements. This
is a. decrease of $25,590,940 from last
week. - -
Walther League Meeting, Omaha's
Biggest Convention, Opens Sunday
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flapperitit phenomenon which just ( ated this r4r troiu tlie l'nivrrity ol I o they hate turned to the twOj
now is agitating the nation any thing I I'alitoinia are blondes throrirt enunciated in the qiifstiom.
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SAM K. GREENLEAF
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County Treasurer
And R4uc Yeur Tat
No. 1. Rev. R. Jesse of St. Louis
has definite ideas on the responsibil
ity of youth to the church. He'll tell
all about them when the convention
gets under way.
No. 2. Omaha's welcome to the
Walther leaguer's will be presented
by J. Geheig, president of the As
sociated Walther leagues of Omaha.
No 3. A choir of 300 voices is di
rected by Prof. Theodore Aufdem
berge of Omaha, who will have a
prominent musical part in the
Walther league convention.
No. 4. "Every leaguer a Bible
student," shouts Prof. J. T. Mueller
of Lutheran Concordia seminary, St.
I Louis, who will address the Walther
league.
No. 5. H. W. Horst of Rock
; Island, 111., Lutheran Laymen's
league leader, who will address the
Walther league Tuesday on "The
Need of the Hour: "Consecrated Lay-
Workers."
No. 6. "Busier than a fliwer fac
tory," describes Rev. Walter A.
Maier, Chicago, executive secretary,
who will play a prominent role in the
convention.
No. 7. Rev. Titus Lang, pastor of
Cross Luthern church, Omaha, is
Walther league hospice secretary for
Nebraska.
Omaha's biggest 1922 convention
that's the forecast for the 30th in
ternational Walther league confer
ence, which will open at 4 Sunday
afternoon in the Auditorium with
nearly 1,500 delegates present.
The convention will bring to
gether prominent speakers and lead
ers ot the synodical conference ot
the Lutheran church of North Amer
ica for five days of religious en
deavor, closing with a conference at
8:45 Thursday night.
Sermons, speeches and convention
news will be broadcast from the Au
ditorium and radio' messages are ex
pected from Dr. F. Photenhauer of
Chicago, president of the Missouri
synod.
Hotel Rome has been designated
as convention headquarters.
Special Trains.
Special trains are bringing delega
tions from New York city. San Fran
cisco, St. Paul, New Orleans, Chi
cago and St. Louis.
A banquet for 2,000 will be served
in the Auditorium Thursday night.
Singing by a choir of 300 voices
directed by Prof. Theodore Aufdem
berge of Omaha will be a feature of
the opening services Sunday after
noon. Mayor James Dahlman will deliver
an official address of -welcome to the
convention Monday morning.
"Fear the Lord and Serve Him in
Sincerity and Truth," the keynote of
the convention, will be sounded Sun
day afternoon in an opening address
by Rev. P. G. Prokopy, assistant
executive secretary of the league.
Rev L. Acker, pastor of the First Lu
theran church of Omaha, will speak
in behalf of Omaha churches in the
same session.
Rev. F. Brand, diiector of foreign
missions of the church, who recently
returned from an inspection of for
eign missions in India and China,
will feature a mission service
Wednesday.
Social features include a picnic in
Fairmont park, Council Bluffs, Mon
day night; Ak-Sar-Ben field enter
tainment and motor ride, Wednesday
afternoon; and Thursday, entrap
ment of many of the delegates for a
special Walther league excursion to
Denver, Salt Lake City and Yellow
stone park.
Officers of the league are: A. A.
Grossman, Milwaukee, president;
Rev. W. A. Maier. Chicago, secre
tary; F. A. Schack, Fort Wayne,
Ind., treasurer.
New Lutheran Church
This is a sketch of the new First Lutheran church on which construc
tion will' start next month. The church, which will cos't $60,000, will be
built on the northwest corner of Thirty-first and Jackson streets. Harvey
C. Peterson is the architect.
The First Lutheran church is now at Twentieth and Mason streets.
Rev. Lawrence Acker is pastor.
Expedition to Climb
Mt. Everest AbarJoned
Philadelphia, July 14. The Public
Ledger, a copyright cable dispatch
from Rongbuk, Glacier camp, India,
via London, announced that the ex
pedition to climb Mount Everest has
been abandoned as a result of an
avalanche in which seven porters
were killed. Three members of the
expedition, C. L. Mallory, T. H. So
mervell and C. A. Crawford, had
narrow escapes.
The dispatch said that the final at
tempt to scale Mount Everest had
been made June 7.
German Business Bad;
France Marking Time
WTashvigton, July 15. German
economic conditions are bad, France
is marking time and Austria shows
some signs of improvement, accord
ing to reports to the Commerce de
partment from its representatives In
those countries. '
Failure of plans for foreign loans
has brought about the"new period of
currency depression " in'- Gexmany, it
was reported, .but German industry
in general is profiting by the decline,
as it gives -a new opportunity for
dumping abroad and ' for' increased
inland sales.' ' :
Many industries, . however, are
hampered by, lack of oal and rising
labor costs. French exchange was
said to be steadily declining, but em
ployment increasing -and the general
industrial situation has shown no im
portant developments during the past
months.
Slight improvement in the eco
nomic situation- was seen. The- ser
ious conditions arising in June on ac
count of exhaustion of British credit
and delays in other credit has not
materially improved, but exchange is
coming back slowly and the situa
tion is clearing up slightly with the
final granting of the French credit
and the actual receipt of 20,000,000
francs. .
Gloria Swanson Gives
Movie Fans in Court Treat
Los Angeles, July 15 Gloria
Swanson, screen actress, did not dis
appoint the crowds which thronged
Judge Rives' division of the probate
department of the superior court
here, in an effort to see her.
She was in court but was not
called upon to testify in the will
contest involving her mother, widow
of Matthew P. Burns, and bene
ficiary of the will which his relatives
are seeking to have set aside, and
attorneys for Mrs. Burns said it was
unlikely that she would be asked to
take the stand at all.
Such testimony as was offered
centered about the mental condition
of Mr. Burns when he made the dis
puted will.
Bamberger G. O. P. Choice
for U. S. Senator From Utah
Salt Lake City. July 15. Ernest
Bamberger, republican national com
mitteeman for Utah, was unanimous
ly, chosen as the nominee for United
States senator at the state convention
of his party here yesterday. Bam
berger is a resident of Salt Lake City
and he won over William S. Wattis
of Ogden, J. Reuben Clark of Salt
Lake City, and former Governor
Spry, the latter now commissioner
of the land office at Washington.
Judge J. W. Cherry of Mount
Pleasant was nominated as the party
candidate for justice of the state su
preme court, and Dr. C- X. Jenson of
Salt Lake City for sate superin
tendent of public instruction.
French Auto Driver
Killed in Grand Prix
Strasbourg, July 15. (y A. P.)
AH French automobile records were
smashed today in the grand prix,
won by Felix Ndzzaro of Italy in a
Fiat car after two of his teammates
had come to grief on the home
stretch. One of the racers, Biggo
Nazzaro, was killfd outright, while
his mechanician, Germano, suffered
a broken arm and leg when their
car turned over going aroufid the
Entzheim hair pin curve.
Final Examinations for
Second Lieutenants Sept. 4
Washington, July 15. Final ex
aminations for appointment as second
lieutenants in the regular army will
be held at all army posts beginning
September 4, and open to all eligible
citizens between the ages of 21 and
30 years.
As the army is practically without
second lieutenants, provision was
made in the army bill for the addi
tion of a large number of men in this
grade to the service despite the re
ductions' in numbers to be made in
the higher grades.
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Leaves Gulf Ship Meet.
Xew York, July 15. The Lucken
bach Steamship company has with
drawn from the gulf conference, com
posed of ship lines operating from
Xew Orleans, Mobile and Galveston
to Pacific coast ports. The reason
given was that the disruption of the
Atlantic intercoastal conference may
affect gulf rates. Steamship men
predicted that the withdrawal would
mean the collapse of the conference.
Vote for L. E. Adams, republican
candidate for county surveyor. Advertisement
Albert W. Jefferis
Farmer
Country School Teacher
College Athlete
"One of Us"
Successful Lawyer
Civic Worker
Congressman
Republican Candidate
For U S. Senator
! "BIG JEFF" "One of Us"
' Big in Stature 1
I Big in Intellect
Big in Works
i Bitf in Heart i
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ALBE WEFFERIS
In Congress and in Private Lift Jefferis
Has Been an "Action Representative"
of the People Not a "Talking One."
Newspaper Comments Prove This
On June 8, 1920, the OMAHA DAILY NEWS printed
this wonderful tribute about Jefferis:
"Even before he entered public life, 'in the technical sense,
Mr. Jefferis was considerable of a public man. For years
he has been much in demand as a public speaker, and as a
worker on civic affairs for which he Las received no mone
tary consideration. Public committees that have called for
men of ability and willingness have had habit of calling
on 'Big Jeff for service. They always GOT IT."
"Jefferis- asks fund to combe t stock diseases." OMAHA
BEE, November 5, 1921.
"Jefferis fights for new roads; opposes bill requiring per
mission of interstate commission." OMAHA DAILY
NEWS, November 25, 1920.
"Sinful Waste of War Funds; millions thrown away in
southern states; Jefferis of Nebraska is sensational in re
port. "-NEBRASKA STATE JOURNAL, Lincoln, Janu-
ary 30, 1921.
"Farm relief is planned by Jefferis." OMAHA BEE,
January 24, 1921.
He Is a Progressive Republican
He Believes in Nebraska
A Credit to the State
Mr. Mondell, Republican Floor Leader in
Congress, says of Mr. Jefferis:
"Congressman Jefferis is a striking exam
ple cf a legislator who made good in inves
tigating the War Department's outvageom
expenditures of money during the last ad
ministration and we will need his keen ana
lytical mind in helping to solve the imme
diate problems of reconstruction that con
front us."
He is needed to aid
the Country's leaders
Able
Forceful
Eloquent
Progressive
Higher Grain Prices
Once a farmer, Mr. Jefferis has taken an
active interest in matters relating to agri
culture, and cheaper transportation for
agricultural products. .. . ,j
As a member of the committee on mer
chant marine, he has expended much effort
on the proposed St. Lawrence River Ship
Canal, Which Will Mean Several Cents a
Bushel Added to the Price of Grain Raised
in Nebraska.
This will mean more
Wealth for Nebraska
He Works for Nebraska
Relentless Prosecutor of Law Violators
Fights War Profiteers
As a member ot the Graham committee investigating war
frauds. Congressman Jefferis has gathered much valuable
evidence, which will be used by the Department of Justice
In prosecuting war profiteers.
He has spent months examining witnesses and taking testi
mony, which will be of great value to the government in
securing Indictments and convictions.
Prosecuted Law Violators
While assistant county attorney unde H. H. Baldrige, Mr.
Jefferis proved himself a feaTless and relentless prosecutor
of law violators. He served two terms as prosecutor; bis
record of convictions is his testimonial.
Mr. Baldrige said: "Mr. Jefferis was vigorous and unre
lenting as a prosecutor. He played no favorites."
LIFE OF JEFFERIS
As the oldest boy of a large family on a- Pennsyl
vania farm, Jeff, as he was known by all his com
rades, learned at first hand the difficulties which
confront the tiller of the soil.
As a country school teacher, he obtained an under
standing of young men and young women. He ap
preciates the need of good education and educational
facilities.
COLLEGE LEADER.
Although he entered the University of Michigan as
a strange farmer boy, without friends, he graduated
as president of his class. His personality; bis sin
Sere attitude towards his fellow men; his capacity for
leadership; these brought him from the country boy
'o the college idol.
IS VERY ACTIVE
After graduating from the University of Michigan
he came to Omaha. The first night be was In Ne
braska lift made a Republican speech. During his 30
years of active practice at the Nebraska bar he has
won an enviable name as an attorney. His reputa
tion as an able, forceful and eloquent lawyer has
spread throughout the state.
Prior to his election to congress, he never held an
elective office.
SERVED WELL IN CONGRESS
Mr. Jefferis is completing his fourth year of ser
ice as a member of congress from the Second Ne
braska district. When our country was at war, and
the people felt the need of strong men at Washington,
Mr. Jefferis was elected and he has served us welL
PRIMARIES JULY 18th
A vote for Albert W. Jefferis for the Republican nomination for United Statet
Senator is a vote for a man who is "one of us" a man who has "been through
the mill" a man who believes in. and works for, the whole state of Nebraska.